POPSCI'S 2ND ANNUAL BRILLIANT 10
POPULAR SCIENCE finds and profiles 10 top young scientists whose work has already and will continue to change the world we live in and our understanding of the universe.
Posted by Vanderleun at August 14, 2003 6:44 AM | TrackBack
STEPHEN QUAKE
Microfluidics: CalTech
Building a computer from a plumber's nightmare of miniature pipes.
DEBORAH ESTRIN
Embedded Networks: UCLA
Her mini-networks track the forest and the trees—plus every leaf, bug, bird & dewdrop.TEJAL DESAI
Tissue Engineering: Boston University
Pancreas, blood vessels or other organ on the fritz? She'll build you a nifty replacement.ERIK DEMAINE
Computational Origami: MIT
Paper folding as extreme mind-sport: pushing theoretical limits for the fun of it.XIAOHUI FAN
Cosmology: University of Arizona, Tucson
By detecting faint galaxies, he peers deep within the universe to the start of time.VICTOR VELCULESCU
Genomics: Johns Hopkins University
His maverick approach ushered in a new way to finger cancer genes.SAE WOO NAM
Quantum Cryptography: National Institute of Standards and Technology
He's harnessed the bizarre quantum world and made it do his bidding.
BETTY PACE
Molecular Medicine: University of Texas, Dallas
Unlocking genetic on/off switches to fool the body into healing itself.MICHAEL MANGA
Geophysics: UC Berkeley
He models billion-year and minutes-long processes to grasp earth's workings.SARAH TISHKOFF
Molecular Anthropology: U. of Maryland, College Park
From the genes of living people, she divines the story of human origins.
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